Employment Rate as a Primary Factor in Student Career Choice: An Analysis of Arts Management
Overview
This essay examines why students avoid pursuing Arts Management as a career path, arguing that low employment rates and salary are the primary deterrents. The author proposes three solutions: government assistance, data interpretation, and information technology support to increase employment opportunities and student enrollment in Arts Management programs.
What this essay covers
- Introduction establishing low employment rates as the main barrier to Arts Management career choice
- Analysis of employment statistics and data showing 24.7% employment rate for arts, design, and media professionals
- Solutions including internship opportunities, government policy support for arts and culture, and discussion of economic benefits of cultural investment
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Shuyue Sun
PSE 2021
Group 4
Essay draft
What is the main reason why students do not choose to study Arts Management?
This paper will discuss that employment rate is a primary factor influencing people to choose arts management as their career. In addition, we also discovered some related issues and phenomena. Low salary is the central point that causes lower employment rate, and fewer people study arts management. As a fact of this, the researcher developed three points that providing assistant to this issue, government assistant, data interpretation, and Information technology help.
Arts management is a new major at university; few people touch the major or hear about it. Arts management has a slow development nowadays, as the fact of that, students do not choose to study Arts management because there is a lack of employment within arts management. For example, according to Helen Kempster (2015) <Arts, creative arts and humanities overview> . Has a type of work for those in employment schedule of survey, about graduates who were in employment either full time, part time or studying in the UK, and total in employment in the UK(female:1400, male:455) .And art, design and media professionals total occupy 24.7 percent. This data from the chart of type of work for those in employment shows that in 2015, the total job of Art, design, and media professionals was 24.7 percent. These three combines were 24.7 percent, as we can see, the employment rate of arts management is not too high.